online virus scan

[Boriyako]

Greetings All

Recently deleted avg 8 as it was causing problems

Loaded avast

Bought a three payg mobile broadband usb modem and 1Gb per month.


Noticed that I keep getting a notification from avast the it has blocked (the most common one) something like "Dcom exploit"

This does not happen if I use my local library's wireless setup

???????

Cocerned that there may be somethoing nasty living on my laptop.

Any advice on a good online virus scanner please?

[Mac70]

http://www.kaspersky.com/kos/eng/partner/defau lt/kavwebscan.html

It runs on Java now so can be used with firefox too. Best idea is to run a cleaner (ATFCleaner is a good one) then disable Avast when the scan begins.

It wont remove anything, but it will produce a report which you cant post here and have it checked in case of false positives, which may be the issue in the first place.

[Boriyako]

Thanks Mac

Tried do download kaspersky via my mobile broadband - too slow! Will do it next tuesday when i visit the library.
Tried to run atfcleaner and it came up with a whole lot of low level warnings (findings?) but wouldn't do anything with them before I bought the programme - is this what i should do?

Any idea what is this "DCOM Exploit attack" that avast keeps blocking ?

many thanks

[squarebear]

Try http://www.antivirus.com to scan your PC.

[Boriyako]

Thanks to all

Will try all of this next week when I can get on to the library's fast connection - tried and my connection is too slow

Cheers